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Question DetailsAsked on 1/19/2017

This is a existing home 2 family. There is currently water being feed from another home that was all owned by one owner at one time. the property has been split and a curb box has been installed. I now need 75feet of 1 inch water line installed so I can be separate from the other house.

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Most Plumbing contractors do this type of work - though most either ask you to get an excavation contractor yourself to do the ditching or sub contract the excavation portion out rather than do it themselves (for a newline install or replacement, as opposed to a spot repair, which they will sometimes dig themselves if not too deep), so if you want a single point of contact and responsibility then a General Contractor would be what you need - preferably one with a small backhoe like on a utility tractor, assuming you are not in shallow bedorck country. Though if you can get a real close electronic locate of the curb box (probably surface visible box or valve operator casing stickup) and also of where the existing pipe from the other house is and where you want to tie into it, you might be able to get an excavation contractor to dig the ditch for the new line per alignment and grade set out by the plumber (generally not too critical on water lines as long as its minimum depth is enough to be below frost penetration depth for your area) in advance of the plumber showing up to lay the line and hook it up and chlorinate and test it.

Then, once the ditch is dug close to (and without hitting) the existing line, the plumber could come in another day and hand dig the rest of the way to the water line (or if he does not want to do that, have excavation contractor do the final hand digging to expose the existing line at house and curb box) and then the plumber installs the piping and hooks up and tests the new line, then excavation contractor comes back within a day or so to do the backfilling and topsoiling and such.

Certainly simpler to have it all done by one contractor (plumber or general contractor), especially if bedding the pipe in proper pipe bedding to avoid damage from rocks in the native soil - and it avoids scheduling conflicts or confusion, and any question of who is responsible for what part of the work.

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